This episode is for every business owner who’s ever felt drained, scattered, or like their body just won’t keep up with their vision.

In this raw and powerful conversation, I’m joined by Filipa Bellette, Functional Medicine Practitioner, trauma therapist, coach, speaker, author, and award-winning entrepreneur. I met Filly and her husband Chris about 2 years ago at an event we were both in Sydney for, and am now so excited to have her on the Podcast for this educational and wonderful chat for you.

We talk about:

✔️ What “body burnout” actually is (and how it’s different from just being tired)
✔️ The connection between gut health, energy, and creative performance
✔️ The hidden root causes of fatigue, mood dips, and motivation loss
✔️ How burnout shows up differently in business owners (and what to do about it)

Filly gets vulnerable about her own journey and shares tangible strategies you can use right now to start healing from the inside out, as well as protect yourself.

🎧 Tune in to learn how to finish the year with more energy, more clarity, and a whole lot more self-trust.

SUMMARY:

• 0:00:00 Introduction and Guest Overview
  
• 0:02:52 Guest Greeting and Episode Setup
  
• 0:03:43 Philly Introduces Herself and Her Work
  
• 0:04:01 Why This Topic Matters Now
  
• 0:05:32 Discussion of Philly’s Book: “Ending Body Burnout”
  
• 0:08:17 What High-Achieving Women Misunderstand About Burnout
  
• 0:13:27 Advice for Health Practitioners/Owners
  
• 0:15:24 Importance of Listening to the Body/Practical Techniques
  
• 0:18:03 The Three Core Pillars: Sleep, Nutrition, Movement
  
• 0:21:07 Why Gut Health Affects Leadership and Performance
  
• 0:23:30 Philly’s Personal Journey: From Burnout to Healing
  
• 0:28:46 The Role of Nutrition and Functional Medicine
  
• 0:33:41 Linking Health to Business and Life Outcomes
  
• 0:34:38 Overcoming Financial and Personal Pain for Healing
  
• 0:36:57 Final Motivation and Key Takeaways
  
• 0:37:12 Resources, Book & Program Details
  
• 0:38:15 Episode Close and Goodbyes
  
  

Hayley Osborne

Hello and a really warm welcome to today’s podcast episode. I am so excited you are here. We have a very special guest today, and it’s been a little while between guest expert episodes, and I’m really excited to bring you today’s episode, and it’s so timely as well, as we head towards the end of the year as business owners, I’m really excited to bring in my very special guest, Philippa Bellette.

She is a functional medicine practitioner. She is a coach and trauma therapist. She is a PhD scholar, an award-winning entrepreneur. She’s also written a book. She’s a speaker. She is a mama of two girls, and also loves really good food and sunshine. And I wanted to bring Philly, well, Philippa, also known as Philly, so Philly, for short, in to have a chat with you, just as we lead into the end of the year. And as business owners, we start feeling a little bit Mer, and we kind of racing to the finish line.

She, her and I met, oh, about two years ago at an event, and have kind of been following along each other’s journey since. And she she’s in health, and that is perfect for where I am at right now. She’s been featured in Forbes Channel Nine, The Daily Telegraph Fox like a lot, and she is completely awesome.

So her and her husband Chris are the co-founders of Chris and Philly functional medicine, and it’s an award-winning holistic health practice. So we talk a lot in this episode about body burnout, and specifically ending body burnout in busy people, especially busy business owners like you and me. We are always just doing all the things.

And they say, if you want something done, give it to a busy person you know, or a business owner and you know, they, she, we talk about ending that, and, you know, it’s, it’s in energy, mood and gut issues, and ending that for good in people. And I really wanted her to come in, and she does with some beautiful tips and tricks that are going to help you finish the year strong, but as well, to help you to be able to look after yourself better as we start a new year.

Because, you know, in New Years, we’ve got great, big goals, and we come rushing out the gate, and then I just don’t want for you to smash in a heap. And so I think, without further ado, let’s just get into today’s episode. Here we go, Hi Philly, and welcome to the Hayley Osborne show. I’m so glad you’re here.

Filipa Bellette 

Hello, hello. I’m very excited, too. How matchy.

Hayley Osborne 

Bright clothes love it. Bold is so nice. And when you first got on the call, and I feel like we could talk for ages, but I was like, let’s just hit record, and let’s just do it. But for those listening and not watching it on YouTube, you’re in bright green. You have yellow earrings on. I’m in bright yellow. We saw Chris just before, and he is in purple, and they’re like, they’re full-on brand colors, yes,

Filipa Bellette

so good, pre planned, not

Hayley Osborne 

pre-planned at all. But I’m so glad to have you here. So I’ve done a little intro, but I would love for you to tell my audience in your own words who you are and what you do.

Filipa Bellette 

Yeah, awesome. Thank you. So I’m a Philippa Villette. Most people call me Philly. I run a holistic health practice, Chris and Philly functional medicine alongside my husband, Chris, and we’re best known for ending body burnout in busy people with energy, mood and gut issues. Perfect.

Hayley Osborne 

And I feel like this episode could not have come at a better time to have you as my guest, because of a few reasons. One is I’ve just finished my own gut health detox for no reason, just because I needed a reset, and I feel amazing. And two, because I feel like at the end of the year in business owners, we do kind of hit a strobe pole. We hit a roadblock, and we don’t want to go any further, because we’ve worked so hard, and especially in the health space, which is my zone of genius.

So I work with health brands, I feel like people in this space, they give so much of themselves, and they don’t fill up their own cup to they, you know, give themselves to other people. And it’s important that you know, even in normal business owners, regardless of your industry, that you take check and see the signs.

And so I guess I don’t know like I. I want to see people win and thrive, especially as we go into a new year for business owners, and I know that when you are healthy, when your cup is full, you perform better as a business owner, and you can, in my case, health businesses definitely help to build a thriving economy, sorry, and community, which builds a thriving economy.

And you know, everything kind of goes hand in hand. So I guess, like, where do we start here? You’ve got a book. Why don’t you tell us about your amazing book?

Filipa Bellette

I’ve got it right here. So my book is called ending body burnout. Find your spark, a functional medicine guide for Busy Women with energy, mood and gut issues. So we do work with men and women, but I wanted to write the book specifically to women, because I’m sharing a lot of my own story inside the book. So it came out a couple of years ago, still, still gone strong, but essentially, I take people through like signs of if you are burnt out, and then how to holistically heal from burnout.

And so also, we coined the term body burnout, because in a lot of people hear the word burnout, and it is often a phrase thrown around in the business world or in the workplace, but body burnout is kind of that one step further to just your standard burnout, where you’ve been working a bit hard, you need a break, but when you come back from your break, you’re fine.

So body burnout is where your physiology, like your body systems, at a physiological level, have also burnt out, and they’re not bouncing back just from having like, a good night’s sleep, or going on a holiday for two weeks, or having a Christmas break, you kind of come back and you’re still feeling really crappy, and there’s some strong signs that you need some deeper healing.

So the book goes through the body systems that we test for and treat in functional medicine to support people coming out of body burnout, and also the deeper root causes. So looking at the mind, we call that actually the deepest root cause, because people who do get stuck in body burnout are running subconscious patterns of busyness, like overdoing people pleasing, over achieving perfectionism. And if we don’t solve those patterns, then all the lovely diets and supplements and lab testing that someone might do will only be short lived.

So we’re really going deep into deep, unconscious core beliefs and different subconscious patterns and programming that lead to burnout patterns in the first place. And then the other two sections of the book are looking at how to heal the body, so more lifestyle stuff to help support the body, sleep, nutrition, movement, and then also heal your environment.

And that’s kind of like in two ways. One way is it’s hard to heal a body when you’re in a toxic environment, physically. So looking at skincare products, cleaning products, mold, but also, how’s your family running and you know, or even, like, your workplace.

So the environment in which you spend a lot of time in, is that helping you to thrive, or is it actually burning you out? We need to sort that out as well a real holistic approach. And I love that, because I don’t just think it’s a silo. One thing, I think that every little element of your life has to run in harmony. Otherwise things fall apart. Like if you’re really healthy but your home is not, then you will start to feel unhealthy.

So I think one of my questions for you was, what do most high achieving women, especially in business, misunderstand about burnout, and how do they know when they’re actually in it? Because, like I I’m a you know, byproduct of working really hard, but I’m also very in tune with my body. And so what? What would you say? Because you would see this so often women, so yeah, I might answer

Filipa Bellette
Those questions in reverse. Yeah, please. Okay, so in terms of signs, so it often shows up as energy, mood and gut issues, and it could be a spectrum too. So if you’re noticing subtle signs in that area, that’s like great little signals that you could probably address on your own with a little bit of TLC, a bit of rest, and so those earlier signs might be like you haven’t got full on fatigue, but you’re noticing that you’re not bouncing out of bed when you wake up in the morning like maybe you used to, or you’re having those crashes In the afternoon and you need to spike your energy up with some caffeine or some sugar.

Mood wise, you might start noticing that you’re not responding to stresses like you used to. So it might be like, all of a sudden, I’m feeling really overwhelmed with my to do list, or all the emails that are coming through, or the kids are irritating me. Or if you have. Stuff. It’s like, they’re just, like, so annoying, whereas, if you can have a frame of reference where it’s like, far out, like, Yeah, I used to get annoyed, but not to this extreme.

And then if you’re noticing gutter inflammatory, like, kind of, again, subtle symptoms popping up. So that might be things like, oh, I used to be able to eat all of all the things, but now I’m noticing that when I have gluten or dairy or processed foods, my body is not it’s like overreacting to those things. Or you might start noticing that with healthy foods as well. It’s like, all of a sudden, I can’t eat tomatoes or apples or onions.

What’s going on there? And other signs of inflammation too subtle. Ones might be kind of just like a weird skin, things that can pop up, like little rushes, or you’re starting to get some acne, or there’s a bit of eczema popping up, you might just feel kind of toxic, lethargic in your body. So they’re earlier signs, which, if you can catch those and do something about it, then Happy Days, because it’s actually really quick to re Correct.

Our body is always fighting for us, not against us. So when it’s sending these little signals and you take action and you listen and you respond, the body has this beautiful blueprint of leading us to homeostasis. Now if you’re further down in body burnout that will usually show up as like again, if we think about energy, mood and gut so more chronic fatigue, type syndrome, symptoms, and you might still be able to work in your business and do the things that you are doing, but it’s just like either you’re propping yourself up on a lot of stimulants in order to get through the day of work, or you needing to drop back your hours.

So, like, literally, if you’re if we’re thinking about the people who would be listening to this podcast, it’s like, alright, well, I was doing 4040, clients a week, meeting with them one on one. That’s a lot, by the way, if you’re doing that, I probably recommend not. It’s like, I just like, I used to be able to do this, but I just can’t. Like the body is saying no.

So if you noticing that your ability to perform and show up is kind of like, yeah, stopping you from doing the things, that’s a pretty big sign that you further in to body burnout, and also a beautiful sign that things need to change. Mood wise, people can start like, if it’s further in body burnout, it’s often showing up as more clinical anxiety, depression.

You might not have got a diagnosis, but you know, especially if we’re talking to health practice, it’s kind of like, yeah, I can see that anxiety is ramping up, or I’m waking up. I feel so much apathy around my business. It’s not bringing me joy anymore. I feel really low motivation. Hayley is giving me all the tips to do all the things in my business, that it’s just like I know it, but I can’t do it. It almost feels like there’s, there’s this mental, emotional wall, and then gut wise.

So that will often show off as things like IBS, chronic constipation, diarrhea, bloating, it might now be showing up as an autoimmune type condition as well. So they’re pretty clear signs that both your body and mind will be giving you. And again, if it’s earlier signs, you can address that quicker. But if you’re not listening to those earlier signs, at some point, the body’s going to be screaming much louder at you.

I love all of these now I’m so confused about my next question, because it’s just I’m really interested in all of this, and I just know that when you have your healthy body, you have a healthy mind, and you perform so much better.

So let’s take it a few steps back in terms of what could What advice would you give business owners in the health space right now? And they could be, you know, not necessarily nutritionists or any, any that you know I look after, I work with, counselors, psychotherapists, like other health practitioners in beauty and as well as sport.

What are the things that you could do right now to just be better, internally and externally, like some quick wins to start you off thinking or maybe just feeling better, to hit the ground running in 2026

Filipa Bellette
I mean, I’m going to say lab testing, because I love it, yeah, okay. It’s like, it’s interesting. It is a quick win, too. All you need to do is provide some wee spit, poop, or maybe some blood, depending on the type of testing that you need, and then all of a sudden, it’s like, data there we can make a game plan that will be one, but then some other things, like my first one, would be, carve out some time in your day to listen to your body.

And if you have become disconnected with your body and the signals that your system is sending you, sometimes that can be. Hard to start off with, but if you build up a bit of a practice, it might be in the morning, it might be in the afternoon or at lunchtime. It’s lovely like personally, I love to get out in nature when I’m having a bit of a DM with my body, because it just helps me to ground, it helps me to regulate, and it helps me to access the information that I need.

If I feel like my body’s sending me a little signal that needs to be listened to,

Hayley Osborne 

Yeah, and I feel I 100% agree with you, and it actually by getting out in nature, I feel it really helps you reassess, is it worth stressing over or not? And usually it’s not.

Filipa Bellette
Yeah, it’s like girl and you just so listening is really important. Now you might have some listeners that are quite intuitive, and they’re like, yep, yep. I just need the reminder to create that space and time to do it. And the moment I listen to myself, I get the answer, if you’re someone who is listening that it’s just like, yeah, like, you know, I get health. But what do you like? This sounds a little bit woo, woo. It’s, it’s really not like so when I think about your body sending you signals, what actually is sending you the signals is your unconscious mind.

So your unconscious mind is connected to your brain, your neural pathways, your nervous system, and so you have deep wisdom in terms of what your body needs to thrive, but also what you need to thrive as a soul, as a person. And so it literally is as simple as, hey, let’s just say it’s the gut that’s speaking to you. Hey, gut, what are you trying to say to me? And just pause. And sometimes it might be a little memory, or it might be a word, or it might be a kind of like a thought bubble around a goal that it’s like, oh yeah, no, that would be a good thing to move towards.

And if that doesn’t come nothing, if nothing comes up around that this is my go-to what am I pretending not to know? I’ll always get the answer when I ask that question, and I’m open to receiving the answer. And sometimes it might be like if, I mean, it’s never going to be as simple as just drink water, because then I will always like, if I’m working with a client, I’m like, so why aren’t you like? What’s going on there?

What are your patterns that you’re running that are preventing you from drinking the water? You can go and drink water, but if you’re not addressing the patterns underneath, you might drink water really well for, like, two weeks or a month or something, and then you’re back to the old patterns.

But as a first step, it’s kind of like those quick wins can be really lovely, because when you have more water in your system, it’s like, oh, okay, suddenly I can think a bit clearer if I need to do anything deeper to heal my body. Well, now my body is going to be able to respond to protocols because we’re, oh, don’t quote me on this. Is it 60 or 70% water our bodies are?

Hayley Osborne

I thought it was more, so don’t quote me,

Filipa Bellette
it’s a lot people. It’s a lot, a lot of watering up, a lot, I think, too, from a lifestyle point of view, just getting to understand what you need to thrive in terms of a priority. So, I mean, in my book, from a lifestyle perspective, there’s, there’s three core pillars. It’s like your sleep, your nutrition and your movement. I know, personally, for me, I love all three of those, and when all three are dialed in, I feel great.

But if I had to choose just one sleep would be priority, because I could, if I don’t get great sleep, I don’t feel good, and if I get great sleep, but I’m eating poorly and not moving my body as much, the sleep will hold me. So if someone’s feeling like, oh, like, yes, I know all the things, but I’ve let some things drop. It’s kind of like getting clear on what’s the what’s the number one thing that you need in order to thrive at your best.

Hayley Osborne

I think, yeah, I personally, I know I could, everything could be going wrong, and it would be okay if I had enough slept the night before wrong. I would, I would be okay, but when everything is going wrong and I haven’t had enough sleep, Oh, wow. Definitely notice that.

Yes, it’s very interesting. Because, I mean, even like, for those listening like that, have small children, like I do, sometimes you just can’t get enough sleep. And you know, I was up at three in the morning with my middle child coughing and whatever last night, and it’s like, well, I still have to show up.

And so, you know, I think it’s so funny, like I was just saying I went for a run before. I think if I didn’t do that. That I would be in a different place, a little bit more tired. It’s funny, I did exert energy, but it’s actually given me more energy. Weirdly, why is that cool? Selfishly, a question just for me.

Filipa Bellette

Well, well, that’s really good, because it wouldn’t give everyone energy. I It sounds like it gives you energy, probably, from a mental health point of view, in terms of, like, I feel Sparkier and your mitochondria is probably really healthy, so it’s like, coop, Yep, great. We’ve got some movement in the body, and that produces more energy, versus someone who’s really burnt out.

Like, if we’re talking about further stages of burnout with chronic fatigue, I have clients who, if they walk to the letter box and back, they feel worse rather than better, and that’s because there’s some deeper body systems that are so depleted that when their body tries to exert energy, it makes them feel worse rather than the better. I find that’s great, interesting, like it’s good if you’re you respond to exercise, even if you’re quite depleted. Sleep twice and not over train,

Hayley Osborne

yeah, yeah, yeah. And so earlier, I did say how I went on my four-week detox, and I think it’s just definitely transformed, like clarity and performance. But my question for you was, why does gut health impact the way we think, the way that we create and the way that we lead as business owners?

Filipa Bellette
Everything, gut and the brain are connected like the main thing I think about is the lovely vague nerve that is connected to the brain down to the gut. So when the gut, if the gut is imbalanced, if there’s a lot of inflammation, if there’s pathogens that are over growing, it’s going to be constantly sending signals up to the brain that something is unsafe, that it’s like there’s danger down below. So therefore, it can literally cause things like anxiety.

I remember, for me, when I was deep into my own healing journey. Literally, it was like two or three days after starting a parasite cleanse, I noticed a reduction, like a huge reduction, in my anxiety. And so, yeah, if you’re feeling that anxiety that overwhelm, it’s going to squash out your ability to be playful and creative and to think clearly, because everything is dangerous when you’re inflamed and your body, your brain is experiencing that.

But then there can be other things too, like poor gut health might also show up as leaky gut. So if the gut lining is separated and you’re eating foods that are seeping into your bloodstream, and when that happens, your immune system attacks those particles that are in your bloodstream because it’s foreign, it shouldn’t be there, and so that can cause an inflammatory storm as well.

Again, I’ve had so many clients where they’ve had leaky gut, they’ve been having this immune response reaction, and it was causing major brain fog and even depression, because everything is connected like we’re not. This is a big thing with functional medicine and deep root cause holistic healing is we’re looking at how everything is connected, all of our body systems, but also our mental, emotional, spiritual, energetic parts of us.

You can’t separate the gut from anything else. It always has an impact in some other way, interesting.

Hayley Osborne

Let’s talk about your journey, because I have read your bio and you’re you start off saying when you gave birth, it was traumatic, and you finished your PhD not long before, and then it led you to, like, talk about that, because I would love to hear it. I know that everyone resonates so well with stories and personal stories. And I just, yeah, just take us through that a little bit, because I think it’s very interesting to understand people’s journey and what led them to what led you to be where you are now.

Filipa Bellette
Yeah, I would, I’ll come I was going to say my burnout journey started when I was seven years old, but I’ll come back a little bit later, but it was probably more around as a teen, I started developing health conditions like PCOS, hormone issues, stand oh gosh, a poly syndrome. I was just like, crap. What does PCOS?

Hayley Osborne

Yeah, so that’s basically don’t know. Like, I’m all about the layman, like, easy to understand jargon,

Filipa Bellette
Yep, yeah. So cysts that start growing on your ovaries, and then they can cause acne, irregular periods, infertility, all that sort of stuff. But I also developed vessel vagal episodes, so that was where, basically, when my system was under stress, and usually it was around physical.

Stress, I would faint fit and pee myself, which was really embarrassing as a teenager. It had happened in the dentist chair, in an airplane, at the doctors. It happened at school a few times. It happened when I took a band aid off me

Hayley Osborne

skin, in that order, faint fit, yeah,

Filipa Bellette

faint Yeah, fit. And then I would wake up and I would be saturated in Europe. Yeah, wow, yeah, okay. And that probably went, yeah. And that went would have continued until late 20s, when I started actually addressing my health. So all of this was already happening now, although that sounds pretty crazy, it actually wasn’t functioning. My ability to be an overachiever.

So even as a teenager, I like, I just started getting good grades one day, and the teacher’s like, Wow, you’re amazing. And I’m like, oh, okay, this feels good, like external validation, and it drove a lot of perfectionism, overdoing over studying behaviors, which then continued into university and also into my PhD that I did prior to coming into the health space, and that was really stressful, because I had a lot of imposter syndrome.

I would sometimes look at my sister who had little children. I’m like, I can’t wait to be a mum, because then I can have time off. Like, now, in hindsight, it’s like, why did you just not have time off when you weren’t a mum and you were just doing a PhD? You know, you could have done that.

Hayley Osborne

There was so much time then too, I know, so

Filipa Bellette
much time, but time was not my friend. So time felt very evil. It felt very urgent. It felt like I had to do more than what I had time in the day in order to stay safe, like essentially. And so then I got pregnant, which was a journey as well, because I was infertile for a few years, until we had our baby. And then the birth was really traumatic.

So it was a three-day labor, a really long birth, birthing in terms of pushing her out, and I had a lot of damage to my bladder, so my bladder decided to stop working. There was a lot of nerve damage, and I had no sensation to urinate. So I had to use a catheter up my urethra for about three months. I had liked a wee bag, basically, to try and retrain my bladder to start working again. And because of that, I got heaps of UTIs and infections.

Was on lots of antibiotics. Newborn, with a newborn that was so colicky, probably because of all the antibiotics I was having and just the trauma that and the stress I was experiencing, so she was crying all the time. And then ever since, like, for the next year, I found that every month, I was just developing more and more weird health issues, like, then my gut went out, then I got depression, then I got chronic body pain, then I started developing histamine intolerance and chemical sensitivity, and to the point when Poppy turned one, I felt like an 80-year-old.

So I’m like, I’m not getting any help from the doctors. They’re kind of saying all my tests are fine. They’re just saying it’s part of being a new mom. But I’m looking around and my friends and my sisters who were having babies around the same time, they were getting better, not worse. And so then I found a book called Deep nutrition. Someone gave it to me, read it, and it blew my mind, because I’m like, oh my gosh, you can, like, heal your body using real food and stop eating the processed food, and things are going to get better. Moment, it was, was back then.

I mean, like, now. And I would assume most of the people listening would be like, yeah, yeah, nutrition is, like, important. Everyone knows that,

Hayley Osborne

you’d be surprised, but yeah, okay,

Filipa Bellette
and so that, when it led me on a frenzy of, basically, I ate, yeah, whole food, but really went into, like, fermenting and growing sprouts in my kitchen and finding raw dairy and eating organ meats and all that sort of stuff to support my body.

Then I started studying nutritional medicine, and then things got better in Poppy turned two, and I’m like, I think I could do this again. And so we had another baby, or fell pregnant. She. Poppy was three when Elsie came along, and this time, I’m like, everything’s going to be so much better because I’m eating better. I’ve got rid of all the toxins from my house. You know, I done all the lifestyle stuff. I’m feeling good.

Two weeks after Elsie’s birth, all the symptoms came raging back. Now, in hindsight, I can see why, because I was still overdoing like, I’m like, yay, this is such a better birth. I had a C section and like, I’m healing way better than I did with my natural birth. It’s like, let’s get back into business. Let’s get back into building things. And so symptoms spoke loud and clear, and then I was just a bit stuck, and then that led me into functional medicine.

Was a game changer, because then it’s like, oh, okay, so nutrition and my lifestyle have helped to at a certain extent, but I’ve got some deep imbalances, pathogens in my body. My dopamine levels are really low. I was in adrenal fatigue. Detox pathways weren’t working, and so, yeah, I went on like, a yearlong protocol sorting out all my body systems, and this time, I’m like, I think I’ve solved it. I feel good. However, I was lying to myself, because if I look back in hindsight, I felt good if I wrapped myself up in cotton wool.

So I had to eat perfectly. And I developed orthorexia during this time as well, because it’s like, I have to eat perfectly, otherwise I’m going to get cancer, or all my symptoms are going to come back. And I was really careful about, like, how much stress I put into my life, or what I said yes or no to, you know, I was like, manic around my sleep hygiene.

So on the outside I looked healthy, but I was still running perfectionism over doing patterns, and I was cruising along okay until 2020 so covid hit, and I also had a whole heap of money scarcity issues, and like, our business was not working. And you know, there was a lot of stress, as there was accumulatively across the whole world during covid.

But again, all my symptoms came back, including insomnia. And this is probably why I love sleep so much, because I’d never had insomnia as part of past health issues, besides kind of waking up for kids, but being able to fall back to sleep. But there were, like night after night, I was just awake with my brain going crazy, and so that was frustrating, but I’m like, well, I fixed it before. So let’s do the lab test. Let’s do the supplements.

Let’s dial up my nutrition even more, but nothing this time physically budged anything. And so that’s where I realized that I still hadn’t got to the root of my body burnout, and that’s where I did a deep dive into healing, deep beliefs about myself and like at the root of it was that I believed unconsciously, that I was weak and incapable, which was feeding into my body.

So it’s like, well, if 95% of my mind, which is the unconscious mind, makes up 95% of our mind believed that my body was weak and incapable. Then how the heck could it heal? I have to try 110% to do all the things right in order for it to be well. But it was also showing up in my business, in my finances, in my ability to sell things.

So there was a lot of financial stress, and money was scary showed up in my marriage. So my husband, Chris, is very visionary and spontaneous and higher risk taker, so he was just freaking me out with every decision that he would make, showing up in my parenting. And so like at the deepest route, all those things that I’d healed earlier or worked on earlier were really important, like, I don’t think I would be where I am today if I continued eating McDonald’s every day, but I needed to solve my neurology that was just driving fear.

There was, like, so much fear in my system, and so that journey looked like creating deep love and trust with myself and creating my own safe space within my body. And I’m spontaneous, yeah, yeah, I just insane spontaneously. All my symptoms disappeared like this time. It was through the power of using my mind to heal my body and my mind.

Hayley Osborne

I think, too, that business owners, if you own a business, you are more likely to do the work inside, outside. Everything affects how you perform, how you sell your products and services, your ability to show up, to be consistent, to do all the things. And I think if this vessel is not working properly to achieve those outcomes and those objectives and those big vision mission goals that we audaciously have as business owners, then everything crumbles.

And deep inside, we know this. And so I think if I ask you for one lasting comment that is going to leave my listeners with motivation and inspiration to do better with holistically, mind, body, soul, like, what would you say?

Filipa Bellette

It’s a big one. I think I think you’ve summed it. Do I have a quick answer? Just as you were talking, I’m like, if I’m being really honest, I started working on the deeper metaphysical stuff because of financial, financial fear. It was also because my body was screaming at me, but it was. That was the thing. It’s like, I need to get this business to work so I can be, well, right?

Not real. We’re not realizing that the health of my business related to the disease of every other aspect in my life. So if someone’s listening and they’re kind of resonating, and they’re nodding their head, and they’re like, Yeah, I’ve got some things to work on, and my body’s been speaking to me, but, you know, I don’t have time, I would actually find a thing that’s most painful, because humans respond to pain, and for me to, like, have the courage to really go deep into my healing, it was the pain was, and this was really just a story in my head.

And all pain always is, was we’re going to end up being homeless, we’re going to be bankrupt, we’re going to we won’t be able to have food on the table anymore. And so, you know when I kind of, like, just dialed up that pain, it’s like, yeah, you know what? If you don’t work on this stuff, that’s where you might end up.

This isn’t probably like a super positive to add on, but I think it’s like it is like a little firecracker that can help you move forward towards what you do on and all the wonderful things that that you are dreaming about. And in order to do that, it comes back to listening to yourself. It’s like, what are the signals? And for someone, it might be, actually, you know what, I’ve got a real physical pain, like, like, I can’t sit in my desk chair anymore to work with my clients, or to, you know, be on the computer, because my pain is, like, so crippling.

It’s kind of like, when you can find that pain to help you to move forward, and then there’ll come a tipping point where you start actually moving towards pleasure. It’s like now I see all the wonderful things that I have been dreaming about. They’re like so close, and that becomes the magnet to continue doing the work. I love

Hayley Osborne

that so much. And so can you tell me, and I’ll put it in the show notes as well, but tell the listeners where they can find you, where they can buy your book. How do we access your amazing zone of genius and everything about you?

Filipa Bellette

Thank you. Probably the easiest place to find all the things is on our website. So www, dot Chris and Philly. That’s C, H, R, I, s and f, I, l, l, y.fm, the.fm confuses people sometimes that essentially it stands for functional medicine. And apparently you can do that at the end of the

Hayley Osborne 

URL, according to husband, yeah,

Filipa Bellette

so on the website, yeah, you can grab a copy of my book. I might actually give you a link in your listeners a link if they want to grab a free copy of my book, Love and they can,

Hayley Osborne

yes, I’ll put it in the show notes. 100%

Filipa Bellette

awesome. So that’s a beautiful way to start. We’ve also got a podcast ending, body burnout show, which the lovely Hayley will be featuring on very soon also.

And, yeah, our main signature program that we work with our clients to work on the body and the mind and the deep root causes is the ending body burnout program. So we open doors three times a year to that one. The doors open next in February.

Hayley Osborne

Yay, very soon. Okay, and if people want to get on the wait list, they can do that over on your website. Yeah, correct, Billy. Thank you so much for joining me today. It’s been an absolute pleasure hearing from you, hearing your tips and obviously sharing your, you know, personal story with us. I think it’s really important that it will help.

Hopefully it’s helped somebody that is listening you that is listening. I hope that it’s helped you and yeah, catch up with her over on her own website and socials. Okay, see you later. Bye.

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